Midsummer Music Youth Camp
July 23-25, 2010

Professional development for young musicians ages 8-18,
of piano, strings, and chamber

The Midsummer Music Youth Camp will focus on professional development for the young musician-offering workshops, master classes, presentations, and a concluding orchestral concert performance for violin, cello, and piano.

Students will attend sessions to help them better prepare for competitions, become more aware of their stage presence, cope with big performance mistakes, and properly care for their musical instruments. Information about selecting a college, targeting scholarships and managing the application process to maximize a student's chances for success will also be offered. We cannot emphasize strongly enough that our camp is about much more than learning to play better. It clearly focuses on developing the whole musician; one who is talented and skilled at connecting with the audience, impressing the judges and winning support for their future.

The Steinway Society hopes that each attendee will emerge with a much greater appreciation for how to lay the groundwork for a winning career - as a flourishing musician, successful student, productive employee or creative entrepreneur.

FACULTY

Greg Anderson	Bin Huang	Lishan Hung
Pin Fei Tang	SuiLi Xue	Fan Yang

GREG ANDERSON's mission is to make classical piano music a relevant and powerful force in society. Greg pursues his mission with such zeal that he has developed a multi-faceted career in the arts, and his exploits have attracted the attention of such media outlets as MTV's Total Request Live, the CBS Early Morning Show, PBS, Pianist and Clavier magazines, and NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, From the Top, Performance Today, and All Things Considered.

Touring the world as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, lecturer, and duo-pianist, Greg's performances have elicited universal acclaim "the highest level of artistry" (The Star-Telegram), "electrifying and riveting " (The Cyprus Mail), "astounding" (Edmond Life and Leisure), and "a knockout" (Schenectady Daily Gazette). A critic for La Nueva España wrote, "Greg Anderson brought the audience to its feet with shouts of Bravo, Bravo!  He left this reviewer at loss for words."  Greg has performed at major international venues including Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo, Japan; the Banff Centre in Canada; the Holders Festival in Barbados; the Cliburn Concert Series in Fort Worth; the Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival in Salt Lake City; and Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall, and Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City. Greg has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Aspen Concert Orchestra, and the Millennium Orchestra, among others. He released his first solo album, On Wings of Song, in 2006 and is currently working on his second solo album, Bestiary. 

Greg's groundbreaking partnership with pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe has been described as "the intense synchronization of genius" (ThirdCoast Digest), and together the two are known for their revolutionary four-hand piano technique and joyous camaraderie. In recognition of their singular vision for the advancement of classical music, the duo has been invited to present at several international leader symposiums including the 2008 and 2010 Entertainment Gatherings (EG) in Monterey, California and the 2010 Imagine Solutions Conference in Naples, Florida. A live performance by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo is featured on the Sounds of Juilliard CD celebrating the school's centennial year.

Also a composer, Greg's works have been performed in venues such as the Grand National Theater in China, Suntory Hall in Japan, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. In 2006, Greg filled in for John Williams on Juilliard's Cinema Serenades  concert in Alice Tully Hall, composing and performing his very own Star Wars Fantasy: Four Impressions for Two Pianos.  His compositions and arrangements for The 5 Browns appear on the EMI, Sony/BMG, and E1 record labels.

As a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, Greg received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano performance from The Juilliard School, graduating with scholastic distinction. He is currently a candidate for the Doctorate of Music at Yale University.

Bin Huang, one of the most outstanding violinists from China, endeared herself to the musical world when at age fourteen she won the Junior Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Lublin, Poland, sharing First Prize with Maxim Vengerov. She has maintained international prominence, winning both the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy in 1994, and the Munich (ARD) International Music Competition in 1999.

Ms. Huang has been universally lauded for her interpretive and technical skills, hailed as "a winner in what matters the most" —  (The Washington Post) and "a talent that leaves a listener flabbergasted" —  (The Sun, Baltimore) Bin Huang's live recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto on Paganini's own violin, the Cannon,  is the only existing live recording captured with that legendary instrument. Both the Audio Review in Italy and the Diapason in France have highly praised this CD: "The Chinese violinist astounded the listener with both her technical abilities and her musical maturity: perfect intonation, formal clarity, exquisite phrasing — she brought alive the noble character of the concerto — interpretation of the highest class."  (Diapason September 2000)

Bin Huang's "Baroque Violin Favorites" on the Naxos Label was given the editor's choice in the American Record Guide (2003). Recent concert highlights include appearance in the opening concert of the China National Grand Theater, recital appearances in Kennedy Center, The Art of Violin  series at the Amici della Musica of Florence, concerto appearances with the Newton Symphony Orchestra in Lincoln Center and in Jordon Hall in Boston, Oregon Mozart Players, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Caucasian Chamber Orchestra in Georgia, and China National Symphony Orchestra.

As an active chamber musician, Bin Huang has played in the Marlboro Music Festival, where she performed with members of the Beaux Arts Trio and the Juilliard and Guarneri String Quartets. She is a member of Fideo Trio which has performed in the United States, Italy, and Canada. Bin Huang has given master classes in Louisiana State University, the Universities of Dayton, Nebraska, and Southern Utah, Shanghai, Xinghai, Tianjing, and Sichuan conservatories in China.

Besides winning the Wieniawski, the Paganini, and the Munich competitions, she is also a laureate in other world's most prestigious competitions including the Indianapolis, the Queen Elisabeth, and the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competitions. Bin Huang began her violin studies at age four in China, and entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at age nine. After graduating from the conservatory's high school, she came to the United States to study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma. She also received her Masters Degree at the Eastman School of Music. Her major teachers include Shu-Min Guo, Zhi-Long Wang, Berl Senofsky, Igor Ozim, Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Gennady Kleyman, and Zvi Zeitlin.

As a winner of the Artists International Li-shan Hung made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in February, 2003 to great acclaim, which lead to a return in June 2005. Her performance of Cesar Franck's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue was sited as "perhaps the finest performance of this piece I've ever heard" by Timothy Gilligan in the New York Concert Review. She has also received high praises from reviews by the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun.

Dr. Hung has appeared both as a soloist and a chamber musician internationally. Besides Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, she has performed in other venues, such as Merkin Hall in New York, Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow, Shriver Hall Concert Series in Baltimore, Orpheus Classical Music Series in Chicago, Sejong Cultural Arts Center in Seoul, Korea, National Recital Hall in Taipei, as well as other major cities in Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Hung has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Stockton Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, and Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with distinguished conductors and artists including Peter Jaffe and Bin Huang, the winner of the 1994 International Paganini Violin Competition. Dr. Hung was the featured pianist at the Rome Festival in Italy in 2002 and Maud Powell Festival in Illinois in 2003-2007. She has been on the piano faculty at the MasterWorks Festival, sponsored by the Christian Performing Art Fellowship since 2008. In addition, her performances have been broadcast on Television and Radio, including WBAL, WBJC, and WFYI. She was featured on the Korea Times in October, 2007.

A native Taiwanese, Li-shan obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with the renowned pianist Ann Schein, who is a pupil of the legendary master Arthur Rubinstein. Among the awards she received include the First Prizes of the Palo Alto Philharmonic Concerto Competition, National Taiwan piano Competition, the Second Prize of the Harrison L. Winter Piano Competition, at Peabody the Annie Wentz Prize in Chamber Music and Accompanying, and the Rose Marie Milholland Award for outstanding accomplishments in piano performance. Upon graduating at Peabody, she was selected to be a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society.

In the summers, Li-shan attended and performed in the musical festivals at Salzburg, Moscow, Orford of Canada, and Aspen, where she had the opportunities to study with distinguished artists, such as Jorg Demus, Imre Rohmann, Grant Johannesen, Sergei Dorensky, and Evgeny Malinin. Her great interest in chamber music also led her to study with the Alban Berg String Quartet in Germany.

Pin Fei Tang is one of the most outstanding Asian-born musicians today. Her unique, sophisticated and inspiring playing style has won high praise from a broad range of audiences. Besides being active in solo performance and music education, she has also devoted her career to chamber music. She is one of the founding members of the Pacific Harmony String Quartet. In 1986 Ms. Pin Fei Tang stepped onto the land of America, thus starting her journey of advanced study and toward the international hall of music. While studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-champion with an assistantship, she won the first prize of the Rolland String Competition in 1987. She was then invited to the International Music Festival of Victoria, Canada to perform solo and chamber music in the same year. Under the guidance of well-known cello professor Laurien Laufman, Ms.Tang obtained her Master of Music from UIUC in 1988. She was then accepted by the Peabody Music Conservatory, with a full scholarship. She studied cello performance with the renowned cellist, Professor Stephen Kates. She was invited to the Music Academy of West Festival in 1989. In 1991 Ms. Tang graduated from Peabody with her Artist Diploma. She then was accepted into the doctoral program in the University of Maryland with a scholarship and continued her study of cello with Professor Evelyn Elsing and the world famous Guarneri String Quartet. In 1992 Ms. Tang moved to Los Angeles. She has been frequently invited teaching in music camps and judging the competitions, such as American String Teachers Association Competition, the 6th China National Cello Competition in 2008, the International String Music Summer Festival in Vancouver,Canada. She has been teaching cello and chamber music in La Sierra University since 1996 where she has graduated many fine musicians.

SULI XUE, violinist, comes from a musical family. He received his early training from his father. After graduating from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1982, he was selected for the position of solo violinist and concertmaster of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra in Beijing. As a member of the solo artist ensemble of that orchestra, he toured throughout China and performed frequently on radio and television.

Since his arrival in America in 1986, Mr. Xue has received enthusiastic acclaim for his recitals and solo performances with orchestras. He has also been invited to participate as soloist and in chamber music concerts at the Tanglewood Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Orford Centre d Arts Festival in Canada.

In 1990 SuLi Xue graduated from the University of Southern California School of Music, after studies with Professor Alice Schoenfeld.

Mr. Xue was a member of the San Diego Symphony from 1990-1992. He has been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 1992; he joined the violin faculty of the USC School of Music in 1993.

Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 16, is a challenging work for any pianist. But Fan Yang has never been one to turn away from a challenge. Yang, one of this past year's concerto competition winners, performed the piece with the Oberlin Chamber Orchestra in May, two weeks before receiving her bachelor of music degree in piano performance.

Her formal music education began when she was accepted into the Shanghai Conservatory--just before her tenth birthday. "I really did not expect to get into such a prestigious school. They have fewer than 60 students total, and they only accept eight new pianists per year."

With less than four years of study under her belt, Yang had only studied with one teacher--her father. "I had never even had piano lessons outside of my house. My father taught me, but he is not a pianist."

Yang grew up in the Anhui province of China, in Huainan, where her family noticed her musical talents at a very young age. "When I was a baby, my parents would sing to me to calm me down, and I would hum along; even if they changed keys, I would match their singing." Her fascination with music would soon focus on the piano. "As I got older, I would hear someone playing the piano, and I would stop everything to listen to the sound."

Yang s household was an artistic environment; her father is an oboist, her mother is a dancer, and her sister--who also plays the piano--studies voice. "My father was, informally, my first music teacher," she says. "We would go on walks, and he and I would walk in various rhythms and meters. He would show me how they worked."

Yang also dabbled in other musical activities around the house. "My sister and I would often play music together after dinner, and take turns switching instruments. I'd play the piano and she would sing, and vice versa."

Yang studied for nine years at the Shanghai Conservatory before coming to Oberlin. "It was a really incredible time for me. They took very good care of us, and it was a special experience to be with so many talented people. I really matured a lot there, musically and personally."

Yang s experiences in her first few weeks at Oberlin were very challenging, as she spoke no English upon her arrival. "I was taking music history class, music theory, all of my required classes, but I did not understand anything. My first 2 or 3 lessons with my teacher, [Professor of Piano] Sedmara Rutstein, were also difficult, but music is a universal language, and we were able to do what we needed to do."

Four years later, her English is very good. "I learned from my friends; they were very patient with me while I was learning."

Yang will attend the Manhattan School of Music in the fall, where she will pursue a master's degree in piano performance. She has learned that opportunities are often unforeseeable, and plans to keep her options open after finishing graduate school. "I just want to live in the music world, and be inspired and inspiring. I am working hard, and I know I'm headed in the right direction."

Non-Refundable Registration Fee: $150 * Early Bird (by May 1st): $100 * Returning Students: $100

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